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PATENTED SEPT. 20, 1904.

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AUTOMOBILE COAT.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 1, 1904.

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W I W4 ROBERT FOX, OF NEW ROCHELLE,

Patented September 20, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SAKS &

COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

AUTOMOBILE-COAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,457, dated September 20, 1904.

Application filed April 1, 1904| Serial No. 201,136. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT Fox, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Automobile-Coats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in automobile-coats, and has more particularly for its object to provide a coat which will effectually protect the wearer from the elementssuch, for instance, as rain, wind, and

snow.

With this object in view my invention consists, primarily, in a coat provided with means for securing the coat together along its front and a front flap extending to the side of the coat, so as to prevent any water which might accumulate in the lap of the wearer when sitting and exposed to the rain from leaking through into contact with the wearer.

My invention further consists in a coat of the above character in which a shoulder-flap is provided for overlapping the upper edge of the front flap, so as to protect the wearer at this point.

A practical embodiment ofmy invention is represented in the accompanying drawings,

in which Figure 1 represents the coat in'front elevation when buttoned up as in use. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the front flap entirely released and the coat partially separated along its-front; and Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective, showing more clearly the shoulder-flap which overlaps the upper edge of the front flap.

The coat is denoted as a whole by l, and it may be provided with the usual collar 2. This coat is secured together along the middle of its front in the present instance by providing one edge of the coat with a vertical series of buttons 3 and the other edge of the coat with a corresponding series of buttonholes 4. A front flap 5 extends to the side of the coat, and means are provided for securing the front flap to the coat along the side thereof, which means in the present instance are represented as buttons 6 on the coat itself and buttonholes 7 along the free edge of the front flap. A shoulder-flap 8 is secured to one of the shoulders of the coat in position to overlap the upper edge of the front flap 5 of the coat when the flap is buttoned up. This shoulder-flap 8 is secured in position over the front flap in the present instance by providing the shoulder-flap with a buttonhole 9, which permits the flap to be buttoned onto the top button 6 of the buttons which secure the front flap to the coat.

What I claim as my'invention is 1. An automobile-coat, means for securing the coat together along its front, a front flap extending to the side of the coat, means for securing the flap to the coat along the side thereof and a shoulder-flap overlapping the upper edge of the said front flap.

2. An automobile-coat, means for securing the coat together along its front, a front fiap extending to the side of the coat, means for securing the flap to the coat along the side thereof, ashoulder-flap overlapping the upper edge of the front flap and means for securing the shoulder-flap to the front flap.

, 3. An automobile-coat, means for securing the coat together along its front, a front flap extending to the side of the coat, means for securing the flap to the coat along the side thereof and a shoulderflap located on one shoulder only of the coat in position to overlap the upper edge of the front flap.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 21st day of March, 1904i.

ROBERT FOX.

Witnesses FREDK. HAYNES, HENRY THIEME. 

